The Language of Love: Poetry

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The Language of Love Poetry

• TTL June 2002
• Meade County
• Shirlene K. Joseph

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What is poetry?
T.S. Eliot
Interpretation - Eye of the beholder
Can disagree with the author
Poetry can mean more, not less,
than ordinary speech can say.
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e.e. cummings

• Poet feels and expresses feelings through words.
• People think or believe or know they feel.
• NOT FEELING
• When you think, believe or know you are a lot of
  other people
• The moment you feel youre

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NobodyButYourself
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Ask Yourself

• What aspects of the work have the greatest impact
  on me?
• What are they saying, how are they saying it?
• What did they make me think about that I had not
  considered before?
• Did other aspects of the work support my own
  response?
• How did these aspects help create the works
  total effect?
• Did anything that I found out later about the
  work or the author change my feelings about the
  work?

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Analysis of Literature
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Friday the 13th, Part 23

• Inspiring
• Boring
• Terrifying
• Experience and meaning will be different for all.

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Meaning Is the Total Effect
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• The study of literature is not an attempt to
  pick apart, but
• Understand yourself and your feelings
• Gain skill in explaining what impresses or
  disappoints you
• Ask yourself why did that work move me?

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Poetry is just a collection of words.The
difference between dislike and appreciation is
often just the matter of understanding yourself,
the world around you, and art to a greater extent.
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Mee, Suzi. "Academia Central." May2002. 12 June,
2002. lthttp//www.academiacentral.com/teachers.htm
gt. http//www.poetry.com/